Re: What if Hillary's fake to the Right fools the wrong side?


"TPS" <theron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Lars Overshank" <lars@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>> Check out the dailykos or
>>> the Campaign for America's Future webpages, and see what they say about
>>> the
>>> DLC and Clinton.
>>
>> That's funny, I was going to suggest that YOU do that. But I think
>> Hillary would lose almost as much now if she DID distance herself from
>> the DLC in response. It'll make her look weak, and led around by her
>> extremist supporters, and that wouldn't exactly play well for her. Put
>> another way: like him or hate him, *Bush* wouldn't. And that's why
>> Hillary can't, now, either.
>>
>> Lars
>>
>
>
> True enough. She almost certainly won't back off from her affiliation
> with DLC. She'll want to at least appear to change the way they do
> business, to be a "uniter, not a divider" (heh).
>
>
> BTW, here's what the DailyKos says about Hil:
> A few words about the DLC meeting Kos (and the rest of the blogging
> planet, and the entire press, and the entire GOP machine) referenced
> yesterday.
>
> I come neither to bury the DLC, nor to praise them. And in truth, I am
> utterly opinionless on who should get the nomination for the next
> presidential election -- it's not that I'm uninformed; it's just that I
> really don't, six months into the current presidential term, give a
> tinker's damn, and I don't particularly think anyone else should either.
> In the next few years, I will personally come to support whoever
> accomplishes the most -- or, given the current climate, anything --
> towards actual Democratic objectives. You want to be a leader? Then show
> me you can lead. It's that simple.

Sounds like somebody is being careful not to burn any bridges. Coward. He
doesn't want any powerful enemies. "Utterly opinionless"... yeah, sure. So
what good is he as a blogger, anyway?

Freep


>
> But the DLC has become really quite detested among many Democratic
> circles -- and by that I mean, by most Democrats not already aligned with
> the DLC. And I don't think the reasons are terribly complicated, and I
> know the reasons are nothing that can be solved by a call for cease-fire,
> rally 'round the flag, etc. The problems are these:
>
>
> a.. The more corporate-tailored elements of the DLC agenda are frequently
> at odds with Democratic "heartland" interests.
>
>
> b.. The DLC "framing" of candidates and issues is so forcefully
> homogenized as to render those candidates and issues politically and
> morally translucent.
>
>
> c.. The DLC has a remarkable track record of losing.
>
>
> To help make my point, here is, for example, the WaPo article about the
> DLC meeting:
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/25/AR2005072501395.html
>
>


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